2.  Albuquerque PC, Nakayasu ES, Rodrigues ML, Frases S, Casadevall A, Zancope-Oliveira RM, Almeida IC, Nosanchuk JD.  “Vesicular transport in Histoplasma capsulatum: an effective mechanism for trans-cell wall transfer of proteins and lipids in ascomycetes.”  Cell Microbiol. 2008 Aug;10(8):1695-710. Epub 2008 Apr 17.  PMID: 18419773   

3.  Alvarez M, Saylor C, Casadevall A.  “Antibody action after phagocytosis promotes Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii macrophage exocytosis with biofilm-like microcolony formation.”  Cell Microbiol. 2008 Aug;10(8):1622-33. Epub 2008 Apr 1.  PMID: 18384661   

4.  Bryan RA, Huang X, Morgenstern A, Bruchertseifer F, Casadevall A, Dadachova E.  “Radiofungicidal effects of external gamma radiation and antibody-targeted beta and alpha radiation on Cryptococcus neoformans.”  Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Jun;52(6):2232-5. Epub 2008 Mar 31.  PMID: 18378712   

5.  Casadevall A, Ehrlich SA, Franz DR, Imperiale MJ, Keim PS.  “Biodefense research: a win-win challenge.”  Biosecur Bioterror. 2008 Dec;6(4):291-2.  PMID: 19090664   

6.  Casadevall A, Fang FC.  “Descriptive science.”  Infect Immun. 2008 Sep;76(9):3835-6. Epub 2008 Jul 14.  PMID: 18625736   

7.  Casadevall A.  “Evolution of intracellular pathogens.”  Annu Rev Microbiol. 2008;62:19-33. Review.  PMID: 18785836   

8.  Chaskes S, Frases S, Cammer M, Gerfen G, Casadevall A.  “Growth and pigment production on D-tryptophan medium by Cryptococcus gattii, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Candida albicans.”  J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Jan;46(1):255-64. Epub 2007 Nov 7.  PMID: 17989195   

9.  Dadachova E, Casadevall A.  “Ionizing radiation: how fungi cope, adapt, and exploit with the help of melanin.”  Curr Opin Microbiol. 2008 Dec;11(6):525-31. Epub 2008 Oct 24. Review.  PMID: 18848901   

10.  Dadachova E, Rivera J, Revskaya E, Nakouzi A, Cahill SM, Blumenstein M, Xiao H, Rykunov D, Casadevall A.  “In vitro evaluation, biodistribution and scintigraphic imaging in mice of radiolabeled anthrax toxins.”  Nucl Med Biol. 2008 Oct;35(7):755-61.  PMID: 18848660   

11.  Dadachova E, Revskaya E, Sesay MA, Damania H, Boucher R, Sellers RS, Howell RC, Burns L, Thornton GB, Natarajan A, Mirick GR, DeNardo SJ, DeNardo GL, Casadevall A.  “Pre-clinical evaluation and efficacy studies of a melanin-binding IgM antibody labeled with 188Re against experimental human metastatic melanoma in nude mice.”  Cancer Biol Ther. 2008 Jul;7(7):1116-27. Epub 2008 Apr 28.  PMID: 18535406   

12.  Dadachova E, Bryan RA, Howell RC, Schweitzer AD, Aisen P, Nosanchuk JD, Casadevall A.  “The radioprotective properties of fungal melanin are a function of its chemical composition, stable radical presence and spatial arrangement.”  Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2008 Apr;21(2):192-9.  PMID: 18426412   

13.  Dadachova E, Casadevall A.  “Host and microbial cells as targets for armed antibodies in the treatment of infectious diseases.”  Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2008 Feb;9(2):184-8. Review.  PMID: 18246521   link 

14.  Dam TK, Torres M, Brewer CF, Casadevall A.  “Isothermal titration calorimetry reveals differential binding thermodynamics of variable region-identical antibodies differing in constant region for a univalent ligand.”  J Biol Chem. 2008 Nov 14;283(46):31366-70. Epub 2008 Sep 19.  PMID: 18806257   

15.  De Jesus M, Park CG, Su Y, Goldman DL, Steinman RM, Casadevall A.  “Spleen deposition of Cryptococcus neoformans capsular glucuronoxylomannan in rodents occurs in red pulp macrophages and not marginal zone macrophages expressing the C-type lectin SIGN-R1.”  Med Mycol. 2008 Mar;46(2):153-62.  PMID: 18324494  link 

16.  Frases S, Nimrichter L, Viana NB, Nakouzi A, Casadevall A.  “Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide and exopolysaccharide fractions manifest physical, chemical, and antigenic differences.”  Eukaryot Cell. 2008 Feb;7(2):319-27. Epub 2007 Dec 21.  PMID: 18156290   

17.  Goldman DL, Zeng W, Rivera J, Nakouzzi A, Casadevall A.  “Human serum contains a protease that protects against cytotoxic activity of Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin in vitro.”  Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2008 Jun;15(6):970-3. Epub 2008 Apr 30.  PMID: 18448623   

18.  Goldman DL, Casadevall A.  “Anthrax-associated shock.”  Front Biosci. 2008 May 1;13:4009-14. Review.  PMID: 18508494  link 

19.  Howell RC, Schweitzer AD, Casadevall A, Dadachova EA.  “Chemosorption of radiometals of interest to nuclear medicine by synthetic melanins.”  Nucl Med Biol. 2008 Apr;35(3):353-7.  PMID: 18355691   

20.  Luo Y, Alvarez M, Xia L, Casadevall A.  “The outcome of phagocytic cell division with infectious cargo depends on single phagosome formation.”  PLoS ONE. 2008 Sep 16;3(9):e3219.  PMID: 18795151   

21.  Maglione PJ, Xu J, Casadevall A, Chan J.  “Fc gamma receptors regulate immune activation and susceptibility during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.”  J Immunol. 2008 Mar 1;180(5):3329-38.  PMID: 18292558   

22.  Martinez LR, Ibom DC, Casadevall A, Fries BC.  “Characterization of phenotypic switching in Cryptococcus neoformans biofilms.”  Mycopathologia. 2008 Oct;166(4):175-80. Epub 2008 Jun 21.  PMID: 18568421   

23.  Nakouzi A, Rivera J, Rest RF, Casadevall A.  “Passive administration of monoclonal antibodies to anthrolysin O prolong survival in mice lethally infected with Bacillus anthracis.”  BMC Microbiol. 2008 Sep 23;8:159.  PMID: 18811967   

24.  Nicola AM, Casadevall A, Goldman DL.  “Fungal killing by mammalian phagocytic cells.”  Curr Opin Microbiol. 2008 Aug;11(4):313-7. Epub 2008 Jun 21. Review.  PMID: 18573683   

25.  Nosanchuk JD, Nimrichter L, Casadevall A, Rodrigues ML.  “A role for vesicular transport of macromolecules across cell walls in fungal pathogenesis.”  Commun Integr Biol. 2008;1(1):37-39.  PMID: 19169363   

26.  Pirofski LA, Casadevall A.  “The damage-response framework of microbial pathogenesis and infectious diseases.”  Adv Exp Med Biol. 2008;635:135-46. Review.  PMID: 18841709  link 

27.  Rakesh V, Schweitzer AD, Zaragoza O, Bryan R, Wong K, Datta A, Casadevall A, Dadachova E.  “Finite-element model of interaction between fungal polysaccharide and monoclonal antibody in the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans.”  J Phys Chem B. 2008 Jul 24;112(29):8514-22. Epub 2008 Jun 28.  PMID: 18588334   

28.  Rodrigues ML, Alvarez M, Fonseca FL, Casadevall A.  “Binding of the wheat germ lectin to Cryptococcus neoformans suggests an association of chitinlike structures with yeast budding and capsular glucuronoxylomannan.”  Eukaryot Cell. 2008 Apr;7(4):602-9. Epub 2007 Nov 26.  PMID: 18039942   

29.  Rodrigues ML, Nakayasu ES, Oliveira DL, Nimrichter L, Nosanchuk JD, Almeida IC, Casadevall A.  “Extracellular vesicles produced by Cryptococcus neoformans contain protein components associated with virulence.”  Eukaryot Cell. 2008 Jan;7(1):58-67. Epub 2007 Nov 26.  PMID: 18039940   

30.  Torres M, Casadevall A.  “The immunoglobulin constant region contributes to affinity and specificity.”  Trends Immunol. 2008 Feb;29(2):91-7. Epub 2008 Jan 10. Review.  PMID: 18191616   

31.  Vicencio AG, Narain S, Du Z, Zeng WY, Ritch J, Casadevall A, Goldman DL.  “Pulmonary cryptococcosis induces chitinase in the rat.”  Respir Res. 2008 May 15;9:40.  PMID: 18482441   

32.  Zaragoza O, Chrisman CJ, Castelli MV, Frases S, Cuenca-Estrella M, Rodríguez-Tudela JL, Casadevall A.  “Capsule enlargement in Cryptococcus neoformans confers resistance to oxidative stress suggesting a mechanism for intracellular survival.”  Cell Microbiol. 2008 Oct;10(10):2043-57. Epub 2008 Jun 28.  PMID: 18554313   

33.  Zarebski LM, Vaughan K, Sidney J, Peters B, Grey H, Janda KD, Casadevall A, Sette A.  “Analysis of epitope information related to Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum.”  Expert Rev Vaccines. 2008 Feb;7(1):55-74. Review.  PMID: 18251694  link 

34.  Zhong J, Frases S, Wang H, Casadevall A, Stark RE.  “Following fungal melanin biosynthesis with solid-state NMR: biopolymer molecular structures and possible connections to cell-wall polysaccharides.”  Biochemistry. 2008 Apr 22;47(16):4701-10. Epub 2008 Mar 28.  PMID: 18370403   

35.  Zhuang D, Hage C, De Jesus M, Hackett E, Durkin M, Davis TE, Casadevall A, Wheat LJ.  “Cryptococcal glucoxylomannan does not exhibit cross-reactivity in the MVista Histoplasma antigen enzyme immunoassay.”  Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2008 Feb;15(2):392-3. Epub 2007 Dec 12.  PMID: 18077616